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A church dispute gave this Texas town its wild name

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You would expect a place with this label to require Kevlar to safely cross the street, but it is just a mundane patch of scrubland. The name supposedly originated from an old church dispute, proving that small-town grudges last literally forever.

A church dispute gave this Texas town its wild name
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